PAIC - Progressive American-Iranian Committee

Clinton: US, Allies Will Not Back Down on Iran Nuclear Issue

Jan 21st, 2010

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Clinton-US-Allies-Will-Not-Back-Down-on-Iran-Nuclear-Issue-82295837.html
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday the United States and allies will not back down in pressing Iran on concerns that its nuclear program is weapons related. Clinton discussed Iran, and next week’s London conference on Afghanistan, with the new European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
The fact that [...]

Secret Iranian Nuclear Paper Assessed

Dec 15th, 2009

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-iran14-2009dec14%2C0%2C2861832.story
Washington - Western and U.N. nuclear officials are evaluating a secret Iranian technical document that appears to show that the country’s nuclear scientists are testing a key component used in the detonation of a nuclear warhead, according to intelligence officials and weapons experts familiar with the document.
The document, if authenticated, could rank as one of [...]

Iran loses a scientist and plays the victim

Dec 9th, 2009

http://www.examiner.com/x-14373-Progressive-Geopolitics-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Iran-loses-a-scientist-and-plays-the-victim
Iran is charging Saudi Arabia with working with U.S. intelligence in the kidnapping of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri while the man was on the Hajj. The Iranian parliament speaker accused the U.S. government of acting like a “terrorist.”
If it weren’t potentially tragic, it would be funny. Andrew E. Mathis
Let’s call a spade a spade her. [...]

IAEA votes to censure Iran over nuclear cover-up

Nov 27th, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5AQ1BZ20091127
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog governors voted on Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran dismissed the move as “intimidation” which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
The resolution was the first by the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran [...]

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead: report

Nov 6th, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL537586720091106
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic’s scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition.
The newspaper, citing what it describes as “previously unpublished documentation” from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled dossier, said Iranian scientists may have [...]

Merkel: Iranian nukes ‘unacceptable’

Nov 4th, 2009

Nov. 3, 2009
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that a nuclear bomb in the
hands of Iran “is not acceptable.”
In a speech to US Congress marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin Wall, Merkel said that allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons,
especially with a leader that denies the Holocaust, [...]

Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb

Oct 3rd, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/world/middleeast/04nuke.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=global-home&adxnnlx=1254600964-/Hw9RgxgNXQmpuVC64DHzA
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 3, 2009
Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb.
The report by experts in the International Atomic Energy Agency stresses in its introduction [...]

Springtime for Mullahs

Oct 2nd, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574444991393619868.html
From Geneva yesterday come all kinds of good diplomatic vibrations. Iran may allow U.N. inspectors into a recently unveiled uranium-enrichment plant “within two weeks.” Another meeting will be held before month’s end. A “freeze” on sanctions was bruited about. In an appearance at the White House, President Obama sounded sober but hopeful, calling the direct [...]

Iran Has No Right to Nuclear Technology

Sep 30th, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574442561260582286.html
By MATTHIAS KüNTZEL

The international community has treated the recent disclosure of another secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran the way it has treated Tehran’s previous violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—with calls for yet more “dialogue.” The continued pursuit of fruitless diplomacy at tomorrow’s talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. [...]

Iran ‘has secret nuclear arms plan’